Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine: From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period by Francia, Susan

Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474255042)

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Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine: From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period by Francia, Susan

Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine

$51.95
Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine: From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period by Francia, Susan

Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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Why has the history of Western herbal medicine received such little research coverage in any systematic and authoritative way, even though it has figured large in both lay and learned healthcare of the past? What methods and sources are most appropriate for the study of medicinal herbs and herbal practices of the past? This collection provides historians with a coherent guide to a variety of sources in relation to medicinal plants that they have thus far lacked.

Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine encourages a serious re-assessment of research in the history of herbal medicine and provides examples of appropriate methodologies and critical examinations of relevant sources. In this innovative collection, historians and researchers from a range of disciplines come together to share material on the identification and use of medicinal plants, the activities of people involved with herbal medicine and the investigation of past herbal therapeutic beliefs and practice. Classical and medieval scholars, social and literary historians, archaeologists and ethnobotanists all contribute to this exploration of the history of Western herbal medicine.

Author: Susan Francia
ISBN-10: 1474255043
ISBN-13: 9781474255042
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2015
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d
By Susan Francia
By Susan Francia
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Susan Francia is a member of St Cross College, Oxford, UK, and an independent researcher. She is a former teacher of herbal medicine and, most recently, of the history of herbal medicine at Middlesex University, UK.

Anne Stobart is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK and former Director of Programmes in Complementary Health Sciences and Programme Leader of the BSc in Herbal Medicine at Middlesex University, UK. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the newly established Journal of Herbal Medicine (Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone).

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